Selkie 909

To study their design and incorporate it into her mech army, obviously.

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Discussion (43) ¬

my thoughts exactly – it only takes one sarnothi to comment on how rare it is to see a jin’sorai nowadays and the mood will take a nosedive. so far they´ve managed to shield selkie from the harsh reality of the war, but i fear thats about to change….

also, forget about hawkeye and his arrows girl, better set your sights on iron man and snatch one of his suits – or get an aprenticeship with bruce, what better way to start your career as a crazy scientist?

Pepper Pots and Tony Stark haven’t been a couple for a while now – think 3-4 years minimum. Heck was an ongoing plot of Tony dating Mary-Jane to spite Peter Parker. But with Tony now more or less dead in the comics it’s a moot point.

Hawkeye has made good use of gimmick arrows before, including boxing glove arrows. I still think the best was a hawkeye/deadpool comic where pool used a bow so they could bond. His gimmick arrows had those hulk-fists that make sounds when you hit things with them (the actual toys you or I could pick up at any major toy store a few years ago) so he’d hit a guy with it, do no damage (soft material: they’re kids toys) the arrow would proclaim “Hulk smash” then explode, because of course they’re filled with explosives too.

TV shows… hm. In my opinion Agents of Shield is hands down the best, I actually didn’t like Jessica Jones or Luke Cage though – have yet to see Iron fist. On the other side, didn’t care much for Arrow either, Flash had a good first season but went downhill since, Legends of Tomorrow is a mess though in a fun if you turn of your brain kind of way…

Okay, sorry. I have followed Selkie faithfully for many months but this last strip is The End. Selkie just failed the Bechdel test!!! Well, okay, technically not, since it’s a conversation between Selkie and Todd instead of two female characters, and perhaps the fact that her motivation is nefarious instead of romantic….

Yeah. The test doesn’t forbid talking about romance; it’s just “do they ever discuss anything else?”. If Selkie had ended after the first strip, it would certainly have failed. This single strip today fails (As did yesterday’s). Few feminists I know of would see that as a call to break out the pitchforks, though. *g*

It was a joke. I know she aced it. The closest she gets to a talking about a guy is whose equipment she wants to swipe. Somehow I don’t think she actually has a romantic interest in the guy despite choosing him for her husband-to-be. I was ineptly expressing my delight in her lack of romantic, mushy foolishness.

I really hate the bechdel test anyway. Just because a movie has women talking heavily about a man with it being their motive (A revenge movie where they’re hunting someone that hurt their families) doesn’t mean it’s anti woman and the converse where they have moments where they don’t talk about a man (A movie where two bimbos talk about shopping ad naseum) doesn’t mean it is pro women. I won’t go into my politics but the test is flawed to the extreme and should not be taken seriously.

Yea, this. The test is basically just – do at any point in the story two women talk to each other about anything not involving a man? If yes, it passes the test. This does not say anything else about the story itself…

…but the fact that overall so many movies fail to meet even this fairly simple requirement does say something about the state of the industry as a whole.

I figured it’d be fun to take a story, start it with two or three women chatting over something entirely not related to guys, then kill them off and have an all-male cast for the rest of the story.

But that’s just me being pissed at modern movies that have to throw female characters and love stories into tales that originally got on fine with all-male casts. Did The Hobbit really need a love interest? (Let alone a love subplot that actively causes the guy’s death by distracting him during combat….)

Did Star Trek really need to shake up its Power Trio by swapping out Bones for Uhura… only to have her incapable of focusing on an assignment because, being female, she’s gotta focus on Relationship even at the most inopportune times? (Didn’t help that the only other significant female stripped on camera.)

Watership Down made it a PLOT POINT that the rabbits were too short-sighted to take women along (it drove the whole second half of the story), which got watered down when an animated version turned Blackberry female. Because representation!

And then the new Star Wars movies come along, and someone thought “Hey, let’s capitalize on female interest in these movies by… making a makeup line! We’ll let them choose Dark Side or Light Side and make both of them sound equally appealing.” (There are no words.)

I’m much less troubled by the total absence of female characters (I fixate on the guys anyway) than I am by having female characters shoehorned in or drastically mishandled. Because the first can be justified, but the second’s just patronizing.

I really, really hope the Sarnothi in the colony have been told about decompression problems and ear pain and so on that happens when humans dive. If someone, like Selkie, yanks him over too much depth change, he can have serious issues. The bends, lung damage, ear damage…diving is dangerous. The fact that she’s yanking him around in the pool makes me think she could do this in a deep lake, where 30+ feet of altitude could be problematic. Sarnothi probably have no issue with this kind of swimming.

It’s a fairly standard “Dad” thing, though. My dad has been light-heartedly pestering me about every guy who’s crossed my path for years now. That’s just part of our relationship, and I room my eyes and laugh right along with him (when I’m not pestering him buy ramping up relatively minor occurrences to freak HIM out about a guy 😀 ).

Is it weird that I’m kind of worried? What if Selkie has trouble communicating with everyone and feels isolated? I often feel the same way. I can’t speak my mother tongue, and I worry about language barriers a lot. Although she might have a translator, so I guess maybe it won’t be an issue.

I so agree with you. The older generation would Not let us learn the home tongue, and going there as an adult, I ended up saying So many wrong things. “That coat looks great on you” becomes “you make that coat look bad.”
Ugh. Best to learn two or three languages when you are young enough for adults to laugh at your mistakes. That way kin folk don’t feel insulted.